adv awry; obliquely; askew.
2. skew ·adv to throw or hurl obliquely.
3. skew ·vi to start aside; to shy, as a horse.
4. skew ·vi to walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
5. skew ·adv to shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
6. skew ·adj turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed;
chiefly used in technical phrases.
7. skew ·vi to look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
8. skew ·noun a stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.